The Paradoxical Invention of Economic Modernity.

This chapter focuses on the paradoxical invention of economic modernity. The theme of the paradoxical invention of modernity runs through the work of author Max Weber, albeit alongside the construction of ideal types. For example, when he admits that the cultural consequences of the Reformation were to a great extent, perhaps in the particular aspects with which the people are dealing predominantly, unforeseen and even unwished-for results of the labors of the reformers. Or when he speaks of modes of the economic orientation of action, stating that economic orientation may be a matter of tradition or of goal-oriented rationality.